Mei Lan Fang is the Director of the STAR Institute and is an Assistant Professor in the Gerontology and Urban Studies Departments at Simon Fraser University. Mei holds a Master’s in Public Health, specializing in social and health inequities, and a Ph.D. in Urban Studies, focused on environmental gerontology. Her post graduate research progresses community-based participatory research concepts, theory, and methods for designing age-friendly environments and was nominated for the MacFarlane Award for most outstanding doctoral research contribution at Heriot Watt University. In the past 10 years, Mei has worked as a transdisciplinary research scientist and health sciences methodologist where she both uses and builds intersectional place theory, methods and practice in health-related areas of critical public health, ethnic and migration studies, environmental gerontology, ageing and technology and global health promotion. Mei has produced over 50 peer-reviewed publications ranging from journal articles, books, book chapters, method protocols to published conference proceedings, that all stem from a broad spectrum of completed and ongoing community-oriented and participatory projects.

Juliet Neun-Hornick is the Managing Director of the SFU STAR Institute. Juliet manages the research team, overseeing academic and community-based programs, projects and knowledge mobilization activities, and managing grant development and finances. Juliet designs institute promotional and knowledge mobilization materials and manages institute communications and outreach. In addition, Juliet is the Special Projects Manager (Administration & Operations) of STAR Institute partner AGE-WELL, Canada's technology and aging network.